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Assembly Ends on High Note with Diverse Worship Experience For many years, the CBF of Missouri General Assembly has concluded with a worship service and communion. None has been more creative and engaging than the worship experience on Saturday, April 28 at the end of the 2007 meeting at First Baptist Lee’s Summit. Built around General Assembly theme "Famished Lands…the Great Physician," the worship service included congas, liturgical dance, and a bidding prayer with a sung congregational response. Worship concluded with a communion where those assembled served the bread to one another. Sherry McGlaughlin, a member at Second Baptist Church in Liberty, preached a sermon entitled Healing Faith is Risky Business. "Healing faith, the kind of faith that compels us to believe that Jesus will respond, is risky business," she noted. "Because sometimes it calls for courage that places us in a stance where other people think we should not be." Tamara Sager Everly, Minister of Music at Chandler Baptist Church in Liberty, led the music during the worship. Several students and alumni/ae from Central Baptist Theological Seminary also had roles in the worship service, including Kathy Pickett, Steve Guinn, Chris Brennan Homiak, Brian Ford, Robin Sandbothe, and Cynthia Jarrold. "I think it speaks to the quality of education received by Central’s graduates that they were natural choices for their roles in the service," notes Sandbothe, who is Director of Academic Programming and Spirituality at Central and CBF of Missouri’s Moderator Elect. "They exemplify Central’s excellent training of women and men for effective ministry leadership – ministers who also care about the work of CBF and are willing to play an active part in the Fellowship." |
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